CBS Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said on Thursday the media company would take a look at Time Warner's cable news network CNN if it goes up for sale as part of a merger with Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox.

Moonves was asked by reporters at a Television Critics Association meeting whether he wanted to buy CNN if Fox decides to sell the channel in order to clear regulatory hurdles in a possible merger with Time Warner. Fox's initial offer was rebuffed.